Word: caltech
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...with one foot-pound of energy∙... to extract the maximum of satisfaction to the race of our present reserves of energy." When coal and oil are gone, Science will turn to sunlight as man's source of energy. Reassuring to the insurance presidents was it to hear Caltech's Millikan, Nobel Prizeman of 1923, student of the Cosmic Ray and of subatomic energy (both of which he rules out as practical energy sources for mankind) declare: "Only the economic reason that coal and oil and gas are abundant and accessible prevents us from utilizing sunshine directly...
...volt tube. Five billion dollars worth of radium (20 Ib.) would be necessary to produce gamma rays equal in power to Dr. Millikan's X-rays. The entire U. S. medical profession today possesses only four million dollars worth of radium. Practical use of the Caltech apparatus has not yet been demonstrated. Before it is used on human beings, plants and animals will be subjected to the rays to test their effect on living tissue...
...physicists had much to talk about last week. They learned that six weeks hence three of the world's most famed physicists, all Nobel prize winners, were to meet in the U. S. at California Institute of Technology ("Caltech") in Pasadena for a scientific chat. One of the three, Dr. Albert Einstein, has a long way to travel. On Dec. 2, he, his wife Frau Elsa Einstein and his research assistant Dr. Walter Mayer (TIME, Oct. 27) will go aboard the Belgenland, have a month's boat ride to California via Panama. Frau Einstein will act as guard...
Robert Andrews Millikan, Ph. D. (three times), LL. D. (two times), Sc. D. (ten times), Nobel laureate, from the University of Chicago, to be chairman of Caltech executive council and director of its Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics...
William Bennett Munro, Ph. D., LL. D., Borrowed End from Harvard, to guide Caltech's division of the humanities, which seeks to make the students generally cultured and prevent them from graduating into ditch-digging, draughting, or plumbing. Useful to Professor Munro's students is the Henry E. Huntington. Library & Art Gallery at nearby San Marino, an-other world-important California institution founded by another rich Californian and directed by another leading U. S. educator, Max Farrand...